Overview

• Amazon MGM announced that 26-year-old Anthony Ippolito will star as a young Sylvester Stallone in the film titled I Play Rocky.
• The project is a biographical drama about Stallone’s early career rather than a new installment in the Rocky franchise.
• Peter Farrelly, whose Green Book won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture, is attached to direct.
• Ippolito previously portrayed a young Al Pacino in the 2022 miniseries The Offer.
• The story will depict Stallone writing the Rocky screenplay, insisting on playing the lead himself, and the film’s subsequent 1977 Oscar breakthrough.